State Employees
SEBAC leadership continues to advocate for pandemic hero pay that will recognize our state members’ sacrifices throughout COVID-19 and the critical role they, like all front-line workers played, in getting all of us through the worst of the pandemic. After months of negotiations, today, coalition leaders have opted to enter into arbitration to ensure that
Connecticut
Children and families in urgent need of support are waiting to receive mental health care at top state facilities like the Solnit Children’s Center in Middletown. SEIU District 1199 New England is calling on Gov. Ned Lamont to take immediate action by staffing all critical health care and mental health and addiction services to save
Connecticut
Staffing critical health care services makes all the difference in saving lives. Right now, children in urgent need of support| are waiting to receive mental health care at top facilities like the Solnit Children’s Center. Connecticut must hire the frontline nurses and all other indispensable health care providers to ensure we reopen every unit available
State Employees
Below is an 2 page FAQ regarding SEBAC Health Insurance Rate Increases. Click here to download the PDF
Press Releases
As state-run mental health and addictions facilities are operating below 50% capacity, state healthcare workers and members of District 1199 New England held a rally on Tuesday at the DMHAS headquarters to call attention to the urgent need for increased staffing and expanded services. Mental health workers who provide lifesaving care to Connecticut residents in
State Employees
Members of District 1199 New England who are state healthcare workers employed by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) held a rally on Tuesday, July 19th at the DMHAS office in downtown Hartford, calling on DMHAS to expand access to vital services Connecticut residents rely on, fill hundreds of vacant positions, and
Press Releases
Public healthcare workers with 1199NE SEIU held a press conference Wednesday raising the urgent need to fill vacancies in state agencies, pointing to newly-released April numbers showing a record 1,137 state workers notified the state they will retire. As Connecticut facilities are already understaffed and demand for care skyrockets, state workers are calling on Governor
State Employees
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On Tuesday, Jan. 11, at 10:00 a.m., legislators and mental health experts held a symposium to highlight the growing and unprecedented mental health and addiction crisis in Connecticut and offered a bold, unified vision for policymakers to enact in order to help children and adults during the upcoming legislative session. Speaker of the House Matt
Press Releases
Mental health workers expressed serious concerns Tuesday for Governor NedLamont’s intent to close a 10-bed residence providing transitional living services in Hartford foryoung adults who are 18 to 25 years old. According to a letter from Governor Lamont’s administration, the Young Adult ServicesProgram at 556 Blue Hills Avenue (the Hilltop Residential Program) will be shut